I honestly think that General Shepherd is a well made character. He always cared about himself. He wanted everyone to admire him and when his army died he absolutely lost it. No one cared so he sacrificed his own to kill Vladimir Makarov. Even though he failed, I think the developers did a very good job.

Both lost all their men in an instant. Both events made the other almost go crazy. Only real difference was that Pierson wasn't at the highest level of command, so he now strictly follows orders while Shepherd started WW3. I feel Pierson had the sadder story due to how personal it was to him. Shepherd didn't watch his men get killed with his own eyes. Now Pierson has to live with the consequences of his own actions while Shepherd lost his mind to the point he couldn't see anything other his own desire for American supremacy.

i wish cod ww2 made a mission when we play as pierson during the kasserine pass just so we can see how it all really went down

Vengeance won’t bring the men back

Back then call of duty would always give these characters depth and reason to the decisions they made and made them iconic. But comparing back then to now seems easy since back then it would beat what call of duty has become now.

To me it feels like Pierson had it rough by losing his platoon at Kasserine Pass by disobeying orders (I had a grand uncle who probably would've somewhat felt sorry for Pierson because my grand uncle was an Squad leader in World War 2). Gen. Sheperd on the other hand yes he lost 30000 Marines in the blink of an eye but working with a terrorist to start a World War doesn't justify the means of wanting everyone to know what it's like to be in the military to sacrifice themselves to defend freedom and have the US full of patriotic citizens.

It's easy to see how and why Pierson became who he did. He never really seemed to recover fully from the events of Kasserine. And then when Turner was KIA, and Pierson was basically forced back into command due to being the next highest ranked in that unit, it probably opened those old wounds back up. Pierson probably thought he was making the right call at the time at Kasserine, wanting to get all of his men out, and it ended up being the wrong move. You never know how a choice is gonna go until it's attempted to be carried out, and at that point, it's too late to take it back. Like Turner tells Daniels, there's the bad option and the worse option, you can go left you can go right, and sometimes there really is no right choice, it's comes to a matter of morals and what is the seemingly lesser evil at the time.

I feel like most of us say Shepherd because we saw what happened for him. But for Pierson we just hear a story

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My grandad used to say “there two types of choices in this world: the right choice and the lazy choice, and anyone who talks about making the hard choices are the ones who make the lazy choices”

For me, Pierson’s story is more pitiful than Shepherd’s… Yes, Shepherd lost around 30,000 men, probably a higher amount than Pierson lost… But, the path Shepherd chose is just unacceptable, creating a war just to make himself look better… Still, Shepherd was a well made character in OG MW2…

When you crack and become broken here's some advice allow yourself to break and then remind yourself why you broke turn all of that anger onto yourself and the objectives you need to get done but don't put people in the way instead do the decisions that put you in harms way because if you die then you die your expendable when your broken but remember that others arent broken and arent expendable then you will actually be right when you do things.

Pierson this isn't transformers!

I honestly have to go with Piersons story. Like imagine being in his position where you are told to fall back but some of your men are trapped. Pierson made a choice and disobeyed orders, costing him the lives of his men. “Choices have consequences” -Ghost, MW 2022

Damn Hardest choices ever.....

As kids we hated them but as we got older we understood why they did what they did

Some of the general shepherd story was inaccurate. He knew it would be an attack on the airport (no Russian) just so he could make a world war and kill Makarov who killed those 30 thousand men. And the intel was on the DSL in (Loose ends) that said “that he let the attack on the airport (No Russian) go without alerting anyone,” so he killed Roach and Ghost so no one would know. So he did it all for revenge… but he never got it.

The sadder one has to be Pierson he tried saving them and lost them all that’s just messed up

I almost feel kind of bad for Shepherd because he was faced with a double edged sword when his unit asked to rescue Pelayo, he either could deny it and have them escape the blast radius of the nuke but risk Pelayo being captured by the OpFor and raped since if you read what happens with female POWs in wartime, then yeah I don’t have to elaborate hence why she genuinely sounded scared and afraid for her life when they were moving in like sharks that just smelled blood in the water. The other option as you saw was grant his unit permission to rescue Pelayo but risk being caught in the blast radius of the nuke when it goes off

Man WW2 was a awesome game

Shepard’s decision to approve the rescue didn’t cause anything they were a a small unit out of the 30k who were caught in the blast, they wouldn’t have made it out either way

5:02 too many people that have never served in the military, and even many that have don’t understand the fact that just because there are orders does not mean that they are to be followed. It literally states that both in the enlisted and officer oath when you enlist or commission that you will follow legal and lawful orders of people appointed above you, that being the important distinction. Not every order that comes down is considered to be a lawful order. Depending on what type of order or depending on a potential outcome, such as a whole unit getting wiped out can constitute in order being considered on lawful or illegal. The difference between the US military and many other militaries is that we don’t blind leaf just follow orders and we have a structure that is set up with leaders at different levels that have the ability to make decisions in the field in violation of potential orders from people higher than them that are not there. One of the main things about, the front line fighting is that the commander on the ground has the final decision on almost every aspect of the battle. A lieutenant or a captain on the ground or even an NCO if there’s not an officer present, has overriding authority for many scenarios and circumstances over somebody that ranks them that is back at a TOC. This has been some thing that the US military, particularly the army, such as the main group that you play as in the game, where commanders on the field, have the ability to ignore or change things or make it different decisions than what they’ve been ordered to by higher-ups that are further back in the rear. The people on the ground in the fight, always have the better view of the circumstances of the fight over commanders back in the rear in almost every scenario. In the US military commanders on the ground, have the ultimate authority on whether or not to carry out orders given to them by somebody who is not there. Now continually ignoring orders just because you want to not a legitimate reason or excuse for a commander on the ground to do that. You don’t constantly see Junior officers and NCO on the ground, continually telling commanders in the rear that they’re not following the order. That ability is reserved for circumstances, like the one presented in this particular scenario in the game. As a senior NCO on the front line, knowing that it would cost too high of casualties to try and assault right away without waiting for reinforcements, Pear would’ve absolutely had the authority per regulation to at the very least postpone and attack if not refuse to do so altogether. So no Pearson is not simply following orders, and doing the right thing, which is what Turner is trying to point out to him. What Turner is trying to remind him is that as a leader at that level of a platoon or company level which is the main components on a ground combat operation, your biggest priority for the mission is to try and preserve as much life as you can if possible. Now before some of the people out there get all hemmed up on that and talk about how the officers job is not to worry about casualties, but to complete the mission as that is something that is often and grain by NCOs into junior officers, that is not what I’m talking about. I’m talking about the fact that officers and NCOs have the ability to modify plans or make their own decisions on the ground to change strategies to a strategy that still completes the mission wall having the potential to cause less casualties.

Never understood why COD WW2 was hated on so bad. The campaign was amazing, and while multiplayer was mid it was still overall good

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10:29 rip Keating and he got left behind and what interesting was that they were heading straight to the nuke in the beginning but when you rescues the down piot they were leaving the city

I understood why pierson was the way he was. I was deployed to Iraq in 2003 and my friends a lot of my men died there.

We need a cod pacific war games with the same elements as cod ww2.

All these sacrifices… feel real

The overlord voice was the same in cod 4 and mw2 i didnt know it was shepherd cause in mw3 i was hey new overlord voice lol till i played mw3 2023 and man oh man was nostalgic to hear og overlord voice on radio again

What about tuner in ww2 cod in I think death factory he sadly got hit and wanted the men to leave him and he said “No sacrifice to great GO”

What the hell are you on about?? Sheperd wasn't the one who made the decision to go back for Cobra. He didn't order Jackson and his squad to do so either. That's giving too much credit to someone sitting behind a desk for the bravery of the peple with their boots on the ground.

Pierson is sadder. Sheperd was a glory-hound.

Turner is voice like Merrick is voice in cod ghosts

U was supposed to survive that place crash in mw1 and fight ur way through the city but they cut that part out

I was looking for a call of duty game that had the kasserine pass mission and all I found was call of duty 2 big red one

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Pierson shall be death, not Turner .....

how did you knew that Shepherd was the one in the comms? audio doesnt sound like Shepherd

Five years ago....

piers and sheperd are the saddest

Cod ww2 was great game tho

Pierson when out a hero general Shepherd he was oki at best

This game looks cool idk why people hated it

Fun fact: Cobra Pilot is a female person..... The Carry is different from MW2 original vs MW2 remastered.....

CALL OF DUDY WW||. Was FIRREEEEE

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nahhhh seriously not hudson or farid from bo2???

Pierson irritated the hell out of me. That being said, a small part of me understood why he was such a dick

Kasiren pass was in Africa American forces were holding the pass until Rommel decided to take on the Americans the Americans have only fought vinchy French units not full on experience ones they were pushed back more an more until Patton arrived to command

But... the command is Overlord, not Shepherd (He identifies himself at the beginning of Shock and awe)

4 hours ago 😂

The WW2 is autenthic...for the story only...the rest is just vanguard beta

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